Tea Party Could Hurt GOP In Congressional Races, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Dems Trail 2-Way Races, But Win If Tea Party Runs — Only 13 percent of American voters say they are part of the Tea Party movement, a group that has more women than men; is mainly white and Republican …

Republicans feeling blue as Scott Brown win backfires — Republican folk hero Sen. Scott Brown is being taunted by triumphant Democrats - and slammed by irked conservatives - after the historic health-care bill he was elected to kill was signed into law by President Obama yesterday.

A Tea Party Without Nuts — President Obama's winning passage of national health care is both exhilarating and sobering. Covering so many uninsured Americans is a historic achievement. But the president had to postpone trips, buy off companies and cut every conceivable side deal …

Gap in health care law's protection for children — WASHINGTON — Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged. Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children.

In Health Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality — For all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing seems clear: The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.

Repeal Means Repeal — By: Jeffrey H. Anderson — Less than three days after the passage of Obamacare, many Republicans are already losing their stomach for the fight. As Ezra Klein gleefully — but aptly — observes over at the Washington Post, “In about 12 hours, the GOP's position …

After meeting, deafening silence — The Obama administration shifted this week from red hot anger at Benjamin Netanyahu to an icier suspicion toward the Israeli Prime Minister, who made clear in a marathon of meetings with U.S. officials that he would give ground only grudgingly on their goal …

The backlash: Reform turns personal — Louise Slaughter and Bart Stupak have received death threats. — A tea party participant published what he thought was Thomas Perriello's home address and urged disgruntled voters to “drop by” for a “good face-to-face chat.”

TARP watchdog blasts Obama housing program — The Obama administration's $75 billion program to help homeowners risks failure by, “merely spreading out the foreclosure crisis,” a top government watchdog said Tuesday. — Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general over the $700 billion …

Hail the Conquering Professor — The Democrats were walking around in a state of shock. — Holy cow, they were saying to themselves. We're not total wimps! We don't have to sit around and let ourselves be slapped silly by Republican bullies and Tea Party scaremongers.

Obama gives sugar plums to the special interests — “Tonight,” President Obama intoned near midnight Sunday, after the House had passed two health care bills, “we pushed back on the undue influence of special interests. ... We proved that this government — a government of the people and by the people — still works for the people.”

Shales On ‘Little Ms Politics.’ — Just in case you were wondering if I was too hard on Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales yesterday for his shallow and pernicious critique of Christiane Amanpour as ABC's choice to replace George Stephanopoulos on This Week, this is what he had to say about her during his live chat with readers :

Senor won't run — The New York Post's Maggie Haberman tweets the scoop that Dan Senor won't run, saying it's the “wrong time in my life,” something the Jewish Forward was also hinting at this morning. — His candidacy would certainly have been fun: He's combative and articulate, and could have raised some money.

On Health Care Day, Obama Skips Signing Executive Order on Abortion; Stupak, on Defense, Compares Order to Emancipation Proclamation — UPDATE: PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL SIGN THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WEDNESDAY IN THE OVAL OFFICE. — President Obama signed the Senate health care bill into law Tuesday.